Cd sales are down big time. Does anyone care? The artists care and they want their money. They're losing money and they're not happy about only having one gold encrusted swimming pool instead of two. The reason for no CD money? Album sales are no longer the yardstick that bands uses. While hip-hop and pop artists ranging from Jay-Z to Britney Spears have long used recordings to sell every thing from perfume to liquor, rockers are only just starting to think of album sales as a component rather than the sum of the commercial equation. Spoon have been actively licensing their music for use in films, television shows and a Jaguar commercial, making money, gaining exposure and moving up from clubs to 3,000 seat venues.
Album sales are down 25 percent since 2000, leading to widespread predictions of the record business' demise. But smart artists and managers are finding new ways to reach fans and make money. "For some bands we represent, there's more licensing income than record sales," says Carol Sue Baker, whose Ocean Park Music Group has been connecting independent artists with music supervisors for movies, TV and advertising agencies since the early 1990s.
Is there a solution or is the entity known as a CD dead as freedom fries? Artists complaining won't help, so maybe they should just play live and enjoy the ticket sales
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